Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only not quite as ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 in April 2010, it marked the largest update to the Microsoft flagship IDE and coding framework since the .NET Framework ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...